linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] resource: Fix integer overflow at reallocation

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Date:   Mon, 9 Apr 2018 17:23:26 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Michael Henders <hendersm@...w.ca>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] resource: Fix integer overflow at reallocation

On Sun,  8 Apr 2018 09:20:26 +0200 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:

> We've got a bug report indicating a kernel panic at booting on an
> x86-32 system, and it turned out to be the invalid resource assigned
> after PCI resource reallocation.  __find_resource() first aligns the
> resource start address and resets the end address with start+size-1
> accordingly, then checks whether it's contained.  Here the end address
> may overflow the integer, although resource_contains() still returns
> true because the function validates only start and end address.  So
> this ends up with returning an invalid resource (start > end).
> 
> There was already an attempt to cover such a problem in the commit
> 47ea91b4052d ("Resource: fix wrong resource window calculation"), but
> this case is an overseen one.
> 
> This patch adds the validity check in resource_contains() to see
> whether the given resource has a valid range for avoiding the integer
> overflow problem.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/include/linux/ioport.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
> @@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ static inline bool resource_contains(struct resource *r1, struct resource *r2)
>  		return false;
>  	if (r1->flags & IORESOURCE_UNSET || r2->flags & IORESOURCE_UNSET)
>  		return false;
> +	/* sanity check whether it's a valid resource range */
> +	if (r2->end < r2->start)
> +		return false;
>  	return r1->start <= r2->start && r1->end >= r2->end;
>  }

This doesn't look like the correct place to handle this?  Clearly .end
< .start is an invalid state for a resource and we should never have
constructed such a thing in the first place?  So adding a check at the
place where this resource was initially created seems to be the correct
fix?